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...Orville Mohler, of Southern California. Quick, wiry and comparatively light (166 lb.), a licensed airplane pilot, president of the U. S. C. student body, Orville Mohler may not be on the All-American teams compiled at the season's close, but only because of an injury to his spine which closed his football career two weeks ago, when U. S. C. was playing Stanford. If Mohler had been on the U. S. C. team that played California at Los Angeles last week, more people might have gone to see the game. As it was, there were 75,000, biggest...
...parents" to enter a cross-country run in a dual meet with Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa). Student Groh ran until exhausted, fell, hurt his spinal column. For four months he was in a hospital. He was given blood transfusions, bone from his leg was grafted into his spine. Student Groh went back to Coe, stayed until a year ago. Now a resident of Los Angeles, he was obliged to return to the hospital for more treatment last week, just as his attorney filed suit for $3,500 for medical expenses, $100,000 for damages...
...thin, leathery roofer from Los Angeles named Roy Robertson. He wore a blue overseas cap, whipcord breeches. Behind his head was a steel brace from which a strap was fastened under his chin. While serving in the Navy he had fallen from a hammock, permanently injured his spine. His disability in no way diminished his capacity to stage one of the grittiest demonstrations of the Depression...
...bush master, largest, deadliest of vipers. Sometimes 12 ft. long with 2-in. fangs, the bush master carries enough venom to kill a man in less than five minutes. (Dr. Ditmars once saw a companion so killed.) The bush master is a cousin of the cobra, carries a spine on the end of his tail. Usually reddish brown, he may be pinkish with black splotches. "Some of them are the color of canned salmon," said Dr. Ditmars. "A very handsome, calm and insolent snake." Rare, bush masters live only in the tropics. Within the last year Dr. Ditmars got word...
...these voodooistic overlords a family of white planters comes in contact, thus giving Zombie its motivation. For the most part wretchedly acted (including the work of Miss Pauline Starke, deep-voiced onetime film actress) and beset with deplorably written dialog, Zombie has at least four authentic shudders for your spine...